Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Brotherhood
• Communion
• Dinners

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• My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Life
  • Identity
  • My Life

• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Been
  • Upset
  • Facebook

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Same
  • Fast

• War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • War
  • Pretty
  • Pain

• I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Remember

• Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Problems

• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • American
  • Space
  • Picture

• For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Small

• I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human. But, I'm man enough to face 'em today. What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb. But, the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of that gun. Because I'd have killed them. Shit, I'd have shot Kim and them both. It's my life, I'd like to welcome you all to 'The Eminem Show'.

  

  Eminem
  • Life
  • Today
  • Doubt

• Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Believe
  • Control

• If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

  

  Alona Tal
  • World

• Jeremy Renner is an incredible actor.

  

  Billy Unger

• For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Home
  • Leaving
  • Marine

• During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Democracy

• A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friend
  • Existence
  • Consciousness

• A character who, if he had not existed, could not be imagined.

  

  S. N. Behrman
  • Character
  • Imagined
  • Existed

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

  

  Melanie Laurent
  • Work
  • May
  • Girl

• I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

  

  Kelly Preston
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Wine
  • Brotherhood
  • Communion